MapServer Report 2007

Project Name = MapServer

Key Accomplishments

Transformed the MapServer Technical Steering Committee (TSC) into the MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC) (see RFC-23)
Added four new members to the PSC
Three maintenance releases of MapServer 4.10
Migrated significant portions of MapServer project infrastructure, specifically CVS and Bugzilla, from the University of Minnesota to OSGeo infrastructure (SVN and Trac) in April 2007
Implemented a buildbot
Released MapServer 5.0 in early September 2007 closing more than 200 tickets. Key features include:
- Support for the AGG rendering engine
- Label prioritization control
- Style and label attribute binding
- Dynamic charting capabilities
- Raster color correction via color lookup table
- Dynamic allocation for most statically allocated elements (e.g. layers, classes and styles)
- Improved memory management and garbage collection for MapScript
- Enhanced debug/logging capabilies

OSGeo incubation process was slow, primarily limited to infrastructure migration from UMN to OSGeo.
Like most projects, keeping documentation up-to-date with development remains a challenge.
There was little or no time for collaboration with other similar (e.g. MapNik, GeoServer, MapGuide) projects although I guess this is only natural given the other demands of working on a project.
The MapServer development team did a poor job representing the new release of MapServer (5.0) at the FOSS4G conference in Victoria.

this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)